Testing the Wireless Waters With WiFi
Firm Sees Coasts As Internet Frontiers
By Yuki Noguchi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 3, 2003; Page E01
The typical domains of wireless networks are college campuses, major
airports, high-end hotels, trendy coffee shops and tech-heavy
neighborhoods. But Forrest C. "Woody" Wheat sees a new horizon for this
increasingly popular technology: the near-shore waters of the American
coast.
Wheat, whose Reston-based firm has been selling high-speed wireless
service for three months after a year of building a network, said he
hopes to expand it for boaters using "every little estuary" along the
U.S. coast. Wheat sees maritime service as his way to carve a niche in
the market for the technology known as WiFi, a system that makes
high-speed Internet connections from a laptop as portable as a call
from a cell phone. He is among an expanding fleet of competitors
looking to capitalize on the technology.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3549-2003Jan2.html
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